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Gear / Technical Help => Microphones & Setup => Topic started by: Nick's Picks on April 11, 2005, 09:13:26 AM
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I know that these were discussed a little, but what are the thoughts on these?
any sources to check out?
I plan on acquiring a stereo pair for review (they now sell a stereo kit w/3 caps, shock mounts and T bar)
maybe the next best thing for sub $1000 mics since the MC-012
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Nick,
Here's the link on the previous discussion. Drewloo has a pair and was suppose to upload a sample for us.
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=36854.0
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Nick, it would be great if you could evaluate these, please keep us posted, and +T
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You got a link to the set with all the caps? I didn't see the pair on the peluso site, just the individual mics with all caps. I thought I read somewhere that he was working on active cables for these things as well.
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If someone buys me some, I'd be willing to make some comp tapes. ;D
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You got a link to the set with all the caps? I didn't see the pair on the peluso site, just the individual mics with all caps. I thought I read somewhere that he was working on active cables for these things as well.
don't know about the 3 caps Nick mentioned, but this one is showing your choice of two caps:
http://www.soundpure.com/showProduct.do?id=713
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Wow... retail at $769. They could probably be had under $600 for an acoustically matched pair. Not bad!
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the mention of the stereo kit came from puresound.com, or it might have been soundpure.com. either or.
any way, they told me about it complete w/pricing and what not. its just not available quite yet, though it can be ordered now. there is no info about them.
I was planning on picking up a pair of of the mic bodies along with sub card and hyper caps, but like I said, i've got inquiries into the company for a review kit. so we'll see.
I'll call them if I have to!
the eBay deal on these is the one to get. Its under $600 w/two sets of caps (omni, card). and that is through that same retailer I mentioned above. I may have to purchase a pair through this cat...if the factory wont set me up.
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yeah, it's Sound Pure you're thinking of (see my post three up from yesterday). Is this the ebay auction you're referring to?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41466&item=7314712043&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
it looks to me like it comes with only one set of cardioid caps, with optional hyper, omni, etc. available separately, unless i'm reading this incorrectly.
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I didn't read it enough....
I just saw the pic w/omni and card capsules
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My initial thoughts on these mics are:
-they don't sound great w/ my P-mod ua5. I've been wanting to try them w/ the mp2 but haven't gotten around to it yet.
-they seem a bit boomy to me, but a lot of the shows/venues I tape at have some serious bass so they might just be very accurate there. I used the bass rolloff for the 1st set of STS9 and didn't use it for the 2nd set & the bass seems much more controlled on the 1st set than the 2nd set but there's still plenty of bass there. (fwiw, on this show I did a 3-mic setup; peluso's w/ hypers and one TL on omni. Powered the TL w/ a V2 and then sent that signal through a splitter and into the ua5 rca's.)
-I think they really shine on acoustic instruments like mandolin.
-not really thrilled w/ the hypers so far but I might have had them too deep in the shockmounts and had some of the pickup pattern affected.
-as far as them sounding like schoeps's you'll have to make that call for yourself. Overall I like them so far, they're just really different sounding than the TL's.
-the finish on the two hypercard capsules I received are quite different from each other. One is duller than the other one. I'll try to post some pics when I get home.
I made Keith a DVD of some flac'd shows I've done so far (DSO[card,set1 xy set 2 ortf], STS9[hyper w/ onmi TL], Gourds[card], Topaz w/ Popper[card], Blues Traveler aka Ben Wilson 5[wide card], BHTM[hyper], Los Lobos[card], Carbon Leaf [wide card]). My pc has been acting funny so I haven't wanted to mess w/any bit torrents but if anyone wants a copy let me know. I have some older 4x blank DVDs sitting around so no worries there. -Drew